Love is a great force in private life; it is indeed the greatest of all things; but love in public affairs does not work.

England has always been disinclined to accept human nature.

We are willing enough to praise freedom when she is safely tucked away in the past and cannot be a nuisance. In the present, amidst dangers whose outcome we cannot foresee, we get nervous about her, and admit censorship.

Beethoven's Fifth Symphony is the most sublime noise that has ever penetrated into the ear of man.

Love is always being given where it is not required.

I'm a holy man minus the holiness. Hand that on to your three spies, and tell them to put it in their pipes.

Be soft, even if you stand to get squashed.